flyfishing48
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The Dieselpower test of the V10 vs the Powerstroke was pretty disappointing to me. They did not do a side by side test of what is most important to me. MPG towing with each truck would be very interesting. Doing a drag race with the torque converters slipping like mad to launch the trucks is not very useful info IMO.
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flyfishing48
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The Dieselpower test of the V10 vs the Powerstroke was pretty disappointing to me. They did not do a side by side test of what is most important to me. MPG towing with each truck would be very interesting. Doing a drag race with the torque converters slipping like mad to launch the trucks is not very useful info IMO.
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FlySafeFlyFish
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First Post, Hello All,
I have a Diesel 7.3L PSD in my 2000 #-350 and it's great on fuel and has plenty of power. I installed a 4" magnaflow exhaust and wrapped the entire muffler and pipes with the Thermo-tec header Wrap, it made the inside drone sound go away and the van is very quiet inside now. The system is stainless steel so the wrap will not hurt anything. If you have a stainless or even a Galvie system, wrap the entire thing with Thermo-tec and you will be in heaven. Mag-HyTec tranny and rear end covers, sonax valve in the tranny, superchips, and Bilstein shocks are the best for me.
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FlySafeFlyFish
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First Post, Hello All,
I have a Diesel 7.3L PSD in my 2000 #-350 and it's great on fuel and has plenty of power. I installed a 4" magnaflow exhaust and wrapped the entire muffler and pipes with the Thermo-tec header Wrap, it made the inside drone sound go away and the van is very quiet inside now. The system is stainless steel so the wrap will not hurt anything. If you have a stainless or even a Galvie system, wrap the entire thing with Thermo-tec and you will be in heaven. Mag-HyTec tranny and rear end covers, sonax valve in the tranny, superchips, and Bilstein shocks are the best for me.
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FlySafeFlyFish
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First Post, Hello All,
I have a Diesel 7.3L PSD in my 2000 #-350 and it's great on fuel and has plenty of power. I installed a 4" magnaflow exhaust and wrapped the entire muffler and pipes with the Thermo-tec header Wrap, it made the inside drone sound go away and the van is very quiet inside now. The system is stainless steel so the wrap will not hurt anything. If you have a stainless or even a Galvie system, wrap the entire thing with Thermo-tec and you will be in heaven. Mag-HyTec tranny and rear end covers, sonax valve in the tranny, superchips, and Bilstein shocks are the best for me.
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SKIRMISH
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Looks like it's your third post.
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Steak2k1
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...U drive what you want & so do I. Now ain't that the truth.
Gasoline, Natural Gas, Propane, Diesel whatever ... the bottom line is there ain't never gonna be enough cause it is the internal combustion engine that is the issue.
The earlier comment about bio fuels being an issue is correct. We are seeing it now that the price of corn has gone up dramatically..why.? Ethanol production and the fact that those producing will pay higher price for corn than feedstock owners will. Guess what.? your food prices will eventually skyrocket.! and not just grain prices but whatever feeds from that grain: cattle, pork, chickens etc.
We need to devise another way to get around. And electrical, In my opinion is the only way that I can think of - at least for city commuters and for the foreseeable future. Yea there are lots of issues to date. Battery life, range, how to charge etc. But those will all be solved. They will have to be. One only needs to look at the cost of a Barrel of oil. $92.00 and rising. I bet we see $150 or close to it by Summer 2008.
Hmm $1.80 per litre .! anyone..?? (that translates into about $7.00 a gallon)
and Diesel again in my opinion, won't be far off Gas prices either.
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Steak2k1
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bigger E...sorry man but I don't for a minute buy you got better mileage than an 05 duramax did. Aint happening for the most part. I tow 5000 lbs and avg 14.5 mpg on prairie. In the BC montains it drops to about 12.5 mpg. And a Ford does better than that...and an '04 at that..?? Take some pretty strange convincing for me to buy that. I mean yea he might have had his right foot in it..or something was screwy..but overall Nahh.
Now mind you a lot of the guys (DieselPlace.com), will tell ya that their mpg sucks till they hit 25,000+ .. I know both the LBZ and the ('07.5+), New LMM motors - many were/are getting terrible mileage to start. MT Trucks and not towing....Typ avg of 11-13 mpg. After Break-in most will tell ya @ 70mph they are getting 18-19 mpg. Add/subtract whatever mods/toys you want...18-19mpg. Go slower and it goes up, go faster and it goes down.
Pretty much what one might expect when driving a 6000# vehicle.!
I drive one because I can, because I get paid miles (which pretty much pays all the costs and then some), but most of all because I really like this vehicle.!
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ckhs
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How do we like Diesel trucks now that we're paying $3.62 a gallon? That's only $.25 cents a gallon more than SUPER Unleaded.
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bigger e
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Steak2k1 wrote:bigger E...sorry man but I don't for a minute buy you got better mileage than an 05 duramax did. Aint happening for the most part. I tow 5000 lbs and avg 14.5 mpg on prairie. In the BC montains it drops to about 12.5 mpg. And a Ford does better than that...and an '04 at that..?? Take some pretty strange convincing for me to buy that. I mean yea he might have had his right foot in it..or something was screwy..but overall Nahh.
Now mind you a lot of the guys (DieselPlace.com), will tell ya that their mpg sucks till they hit 25,000+ .. I know both the LBZ and the ('07.5+), New LMM motors - many were/are getting terrible mileage to start. MT Trucks and not towing....Typ avg of 11-13 mpg. After Break-in most will tell ya @ 70mph they are getting 18-19 mpg. Add/subtract whatever mods/toys you want...18-19mpg. Go slower and it goes up, go faster and it goes down.
Pretty much what one might expect when driving a 6000# vehicle.!
I drive one because I can, because I get paid miles (which pretty much pays all the costs and then some), but most of all because I really like this vehicle.!
Stk Sorry...I guess I did not make myself clear. His truck is a 05 2500HD with a 6.0 GAS engine. Not a Duramax!
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